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The Godfather of the LA Club Scene
Josh Richman is a Los Angeles legend. His clubs have defined the LA party scene: Grand Ville, Teddys, Les Deux, Greystone Manor. He is a founding member of the Alliance, an event promoting agency that organizes A-List parties for companies like Sony, Cadillac and Heineken. He’s thrown bashes for the Super Bowl, the Grammys, the Oscars. With his ever-present fedora and eight-ball topped cane, his success is built on a vibrant personality and a pull to the people “that matter.”
Josh and I grew up across the street from each other in a Studio City suburb. We were both latch key kids who played sports year round until the streetlights came on. We shared the surreal experience of seeing our local ice cream man suffer a heart attack and crash his truck into a fire hydrant. We hiked the auto grave yard beneath Mulholland Drive in search of snakes and scorpions. We raised hell together, breaking into people’s homes to rearrange furniture or change answering machine messages.
Josh was always a step ahead of me. While I listened to Elton John, he listened to T-Rex. While I watched Beanie & Cecil, Josh viewed Fritz The Cat. His family was the first in the neighborhood to own a Sony Betamax player and first to subscribe to the Z Channel. He somehow obtained the infamous Faces of Death video when he was just twelve years old. We went to Rams…
